CHAPTER XVIII 



GARDEN FURNISHINGS 



"Furnished with whatever may make the place agreeable, mel- 

 ancholy, and country-like." 



— Forest Trees, John Evelyn, 1670. 



UAINT old books of garden de- 

 signers show us that much more 

 was contained in a garden two 

 centuries ago, than now ; it had 

 many more adjuncts, more furnish- 

 ings ; a very full list of them has 

 been given by Batty Langley in 

 his New Principles of Gardening, 

 etc., 1728. Some seem amusing — as haystacks and 

 woodpiles, which he terms " rural enrichments." Of 

 water adornments there were to be purling streams, 

 basins, canals, fountains, cascades, cold baths. There 

 were to be aviaries, hare warrens, pheasant grounds, 

 partridge grounds, dove-cotes, beehives, deer pad- 

 docks, sheep walks, cow pastures, and "manazeries" 

 (menageries?); physic gardens, orchards, bowling- 

 greens, hop gardens, orangeries, melon grounds, 

 vineyards, parterres, fruit yards, nurseries, sun-dials, 

 obelisks, statues, cabinets, etc., decorated the garden 

 walks. There were to be land gradings of mounts, 

 winding valleys, dales, terraces, slopes, borders, open 



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